Tambogrande: Mangos, Murder, Mining

In the northern Peruvian city of Tambogrande, some villagers make the desert fertile through mango production. Later, they find out that the government has secretly granted mining concessions on their land to a multi-national corporation. The residents of Tambogrande organize The Defense Front to protect their town.

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A new film by Ernesto Cabellos and Stephanie Boyd, the same producer-director duo responsible for the award-winning film Choropampa: The Price of Gold (Peru 2002). This feature-length documentary follows the struggle of a small village in the Andes for health care and justice after a mercury spill by the world’s largest gold corporation. The film has won 5 international awards and been broadcast on the Sundance Channel (USA), CBC Country (Canada), KBDI (Colorado, USA) and national television in Peru, Argentina and Venezuela.